were are the cookies reported located?

CCleaner for Windows
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Hello,

I'm a newbie to ccleaner and I'm a german, so please accuse my bad English.

First I did an 'analyse' with some checkboxes of 'IE' selected.

Among other the list contains the names of the cookies selected but not the path.

And it's a small number only of the many cookies in my C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username\Cookies.

I wonder why only these have been selected and among them there are some which I definitly not want to be removed.

How can I find out the location of those cookies?

Perhaps they are in an temp directory or something alike.

Thanks ../RaMi

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The cookies you seek can be found via

C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

By default you cannot see "Temporary Internet Files" within "Local Settings" unless you first enable viewing "Hidden Files" and enable viewing "Hide protected operating system files".

To do so you need to open My Computer then click the "Tools" (in Vista hold ALT to see the tools option on the menu bar) then click "Folder Options" and when the new window opens click the "View" tab, then scroll and look for "Hidden Files and folders" and "Hide protected operating system files".

You can disable both for the period of time in which you wish to backup your cookies.

After that DO NOT mess with any other files as hidden files are hidden to ensure you do not remove them or modify them. Cookies are fine to modify. After you are done re-enable the hidden files and folders and the protected operating system.

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Thanks for the reply.

> .. can be found via C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

I know this. By the way, this is a win 2000 system.

And I found my mistake: These were FireFox entries.

Unnoticed I had included 'Applications-Firefox' which I didn't want to include. And I use Firefox rarely.

Of course I did a search for cookies and found a lot. But still the question remained.

Meanwhile, I think I found the solution:

I misunderstood the point: Even ccleaner cannot find out cookies no longer in use!

Therefore: 'selecting Cookies' means: delete ALL cookies.

Can you confirm this?

.../RaMi